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Cindy Strait

@cstrait.bsky.social

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Married. Love animals and the beach. Patriotic Democrat who, at the moment, is ashamed of my country and my state of Florida. Struggling to balance staying informed while maintaining my sanity. Stay tuned. 🚫 DMs

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 2h

Remember when news articles were not opinion pieces?

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn either does kidnap and molest preschoolers or he doesn’t. Does he or does he not? Is there troubling evidence or isn’t there? Have preschoolers shrieked in pain and terror in his office or haven’t they? All of this plus the Brooklyn Book Festival!ghv

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h

Trump just said online the "Biden FBI" placed agents into the crowd on January 6, but Trump was president on January 6.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 3h

Can't even watch the news to be informed if they let people come on air and lie, unchecked.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

💯 CO-SIGN 👇🏽

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 3h

Mark Sanchez has officially been booked in Marion County Jail.

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Kim @kim4thebabies.bsky.social · 2h

‘No it did not, but social media ‘influencers’ misused its results to spread misinformation far and wide.’

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Did a South Korean study really claim that COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer? — Al Jazeera

No it did not, but social media ‘influencers’ misused its results to spread misinformation far and wide.

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Todders @todders707.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting see that the state of California has different messaging

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Cindy Strait @cstrait.bsky.social · 2h

Me too. I wish it was cooler here in Florida. I'd get one to wear. It amuses me.

Cindy Strait @cstrait.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you for clearing that up for me. It's exhausting trying to keep up with everything these days.

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Ken @cowcakes.bsky.social · 15h

The continuing environmental devastation of coal mining and burning.

Dr Bino says the results "clearly show toxic brine is leaking from Energy Australia's Mount Piper Power Station ash dump".

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Platypus vanish from river where Charles Darwin pondered evolution

Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems to have disappeared.

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KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 3h

They never learn.

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Michael O' @socratesxxx.bsky.social · 3h

4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says apnews.com/article/sout...

4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on the idyllic South Carolina island of St. Helena left four people dead and at least 20 injured.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 22h

Simple messaging I recommend you share and text friends, family, and neighbors.

These are the lines Democrats need to be using.

Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 22h

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

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Billie Etchison @sybilte420.bsky.social · 21h

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3h

The Trump administration has now reversed the layoffs of a lot of federal employees. At the CDC, officials said some staff were mistakenly terminated due to a procedural error.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):